Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Mousetrap (Caught In), artist - Peter Hammill. Album song The Future Now, in the genre Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Record label: Virgin
Song language: English
The Mousetrap (Caught In) |
| After all is said and done |
| Not very much will have been either way: |
| I’m a chronicler of action |
| I’m an actor in the play |
| I know the lines I have to speak |
| I know that I won’t ever quit, corpse, or dry |
| But the performance gets so pointless |
| And the days just drift on by |
| Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar |
| In the third act of this twenty-ninth year of the show |
| I’m aware of the latest leading lady and get mad at her… |
| It’s perfunctory, but why she’ll never know |
| When I began I had my hopes |
| Believed that I could be a leading light of the stage |
| But now I’ve stunned myself to silence |
| Exhausted all my inner rage |
| Extinguished all my joy and violence |
| Trapped all my feelings in a cage |
| And every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar |
| I can see that I’m not really going anywhere; |
| All these years I have skirted round experience like a scavenger |
| Can I really feel? |
| I wonder if I dare? |
| At the end of the run, will there be anyone who cares? |
| And behind the actor’s pose, heaven knows |
| If there’s anyone left in there |